Example sentences of "have had a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made sure that er on each occasion er we reached a figure or a set of figures that would be mutually acceptable to ask the colleague or colleagues and , and then it was registered in the minutes as a , so we could refer back to er any cases er that were similar and that then made life easier for the shop stewards er who may have had a recurrence of the same problem . |
| 2 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |
| 3 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 4 | Perhaps I could have had a bit of a chat to him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He could have had a bit of a crush , ’ she acknowledged , ‘ but the main attraction was my career . |
| 6 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 7 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |
| 8 | Previously , she would have had a contribution of £19.00 . |
| 9 | It was an obvious-looking deception , and should n't have had a hope in hell of working ; but the girls were mostly young and good-looking , and their prey were mostly out-of-towners , and as long as they kept shifting their ground the money kept on coming in . |
| 10 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 11 | They might as well have had a rope round his ankle . |
| 12 | An appeal court said fresh evidence presented last month could have had a bearing on the jury 's original verdict . |
| 13 | The Times Diary suggested recently that parent company W H Smith 's reluctance to write off shopfitting costs estimated at £500,000 might have had a bearing on the newfound amity between the companies . |
| 14 | This may well have had a bearing on Washington 's decision later in the year to send out the hostage intelligence team , headed by Major Charles McKee of the DIA , who died in the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 15 | Indeed , the loss of the Asmar network 's continuing surveillance of NARCOG 's operations in Lebanon may well have had a bearing on the bombing itself . |
| 16 | Michael Banks had been a man who inspired love , but even so Charles could produce quite a list of people who might have had a grudge against him . |
| 17 | Another complaint was that the trial judge failed to give the jury any warning about the evidence of Zaidie and Matadial as witnesses who may have had a purpose of their own to serve or whose evidence could be tainted by an improper motive . |
| 18 | both players have agreed their personal terms long ago and at least haaland will travel to england to join forest on new years day.none of these two players would have had a chance under the old rules for work permits — both are under-21 's for norway and both have not been playing for norways world cup team . |
| 19 | I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ . |
| 20 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 21 | Rosenior must have had a rush of blood as he kicked Kernaghan . |
| 22 | The sort of person Moran was would have been an IRA person and belonged to the IRA at the foundation of the country and would have had a tricolour on his coffin . |
| 23 | I suppose it was good at the time that I was n't kissing Andrew , otherwise I would have had a mouthful of sick . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 25 | Flies , we can well imagine , must have had a hey-day in such an environment , and those attracted by the flesh and the dung of horses would have had to be whisked off Charles 's meat — perhaps by boys with birch whisks specially employed for the purpose . |
| 26 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |
| 27 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 28 | The ice cream girl must have had a lie in this Sunday morning , and she arrived towards the end of the film showing prior to the interval . |
| 29 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |
| 30 | It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind . |